ANA KRŽIŠNIK BLAŽICA
**Dramaturg
Ana Križišnik Blažica - Dramaturg with MN Dance Company
2023/2024 Season
- Flights, Premiere 17th of June 2024
- Border-Line, Premiere 29th of Aprill 2024
- Distance, Premiere 11th of October 2023
- To the Moon and Back, Premiere 4th June of 2023
2021/2022 Season
- Perpetuum Mobile, Premiere 17th of November 2022 Icarus, Premiere 28th of October 2021
2019/2020 Season
- DE-SET, Premiere 12th of December 2019
2016/2017 Season
- S/HE, Premiere 16th of November 2017
Dramaturge Mag. Ana Kržišnik Blažica, born in 1981 in Ljubljana, worked closely with Michal and Nastja as a dramaturg in their performances. After completing high school in Idrija, she enrolled in the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana and graduated in cultural sociology and Slovenian language and literature. She then continued her postgraduate studies in dramaturgy at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television under the mentorship of Dr. Barbara Orel.
From 2008 to 2010, she worked as a freelance culture creator (dramaturge-editor) collaborating with various directors in several Slovenian theaters, preparing adaptations and dramatizations, and mentoring school theater groups. Additionally, she collaborated with the MN Dance Company as a dramaturg in their performances.
She also worked as a dramaturge and adapted scripts for radio plays on Radio Slovenia. She publishes articles on theater studies in theater programs. In 2009, she was the artistic director of the Jože Pengov Puppet Theatre in Ljubljana, and in 2010, she became employed as a dramaturge at the Slovenian National Theatre Nova Gorica.
AWARDS
- 2007/08, Satir Award for the performance at the 5th festival of chamber theater SKUP in Ptuj, Miss Julie (August Strindberg, directed by Mateja Koležnik), Kranj Theatre 2006/07, Borštnik Award for Best Overall Performance, Oedipus in Corinth (Ivo Svetina, directed by Ivica Buljan), SNG Drama Ljubljana 2006, Academy Prešeren Award for group anthology Dramatic and Theatrical Nineties
